Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
I've seen a bit about the killing in the media, but I don't understand why nobody seems to be talking about how horridly corrupt the American justice system looks. It sounds like an endemic culture...
It's because, in our culture, there exists just enough divisiveness to keep dissent from being a popular enough opinion as to prove significant. Black/white, conservative/liberal, gay/straight, realist/idealist, Coke/Pepsi... The real evils of our society fall into obscurity, because there is a perpetual counter-balance to every extreme, polarizing or sensationalist claim that can be made. Blacks who think the justice system is fucked are labelled '(reverse)racist'; people who think the rich should pay more in taxes are labelled 'socialist' or 'communist' (whichever is the more popular buzzword at the time); people who try to highlight the corruptibility of government are deemed 'anti-American'. Etc.

Whether you believe this sort of divisiveness is engineered, or if it's just by coincidence, the fact remains that the proponents of each side of every viewpoint can make their stances so attractive (and the people who adopt them are so very malleable) that even though there are plenty of people out there who know how screwed our legal system is (as if the legal system was the only thing that needed fixing), it will never be enough to bring about widespread change... Our modern culture simply isn't drafted to allow that level of popular dissent. There are plenty of people who are talking about how corrupt the American justice system looks. Many of those same people have been saying the same thing for decades. The problem is that nobody is listening to them, because they're too busy tending to their own biases to notice.